@blackoptimuscollectibles wrote:
I'm thinking of doing the same thing. Sells have dropped off of a cliff and I've had to drop prices to a point that I'm barely making a profit. People seem to watch and not but. A lot of those watchers are other sellers I bet That plus increased postage is driving me away from selling. I haven't gotten any sales at all from my other sales venues either. I do have higher priced items to sale but I'm afraid of being scammed and Ebay taking the scammer's side.
I'll give it until the end of this month or sometime next month. After that I'm pulling my stock off of ebay.
Yes, I guarantee the majority of watchers are your competition! They have the same thing and want to see if yours sells and for how much. Others may genuinely be interested and uncertain, while others are waiting for your to drop the price down to nothing! It's interesting that I seem to get more sales on items with no or very few watchers, versus those with many. I find the high number of watchers the equivalent of rubberneckers! It's also why I never use the relist item feature when reposting, I use sell similar. I figure if the watchers didn't buy when the item was active they weren't serious prospects and I prefer to repost fresh.
I loved seeing USPS offer such reasonable postage for up to 15.99 oz FCM, but I knew it was too good to be true, since they've hiked that price 15%! A first class pkg is more now than what I quoted in my other post for up to 2 lbs Priority anywhere ($3.95). Granted that was probably 15 or so years ago, but the price hike shouldn't be that high in just a decade and a half, it's gone up over 300%! Can you imagine how much we could sell if Priority packages were still that inexpensive!! It would be amazing! (I try to sell items that mainly qualify for First Class in order to keep costs down, but that's very limiting and the lighter weight pkgs have increased 100% in less than 2 yrs).
The writing was on the wall when USPS went to the complicated zone pricing and the crazy first class assortments, I still can't remember all the requirements of that mess! I guess USPS has never heard of KISS (Keep it simple stupid), they're more like MIFC (Make it Freaking Complicated) or select your fav adjective....confusing, complex, convoluted, crazy!!
